The original location of Nuttall & Mann's #10
Saloon was at 624 Main Street, but, the building burned down in the tragic fire of 1879. There
are no known photographs of the original saloon. Today, the original
location is occupied by a bar. In 1938, a "new" Old
Style Saloon #10 was recreated across the street at 657 Main Street, which
continues to operate today (see
next page.)

It was at this original location that Wild Bill Hickok
was shot by
Jack McCall on August 2, 1876. The prior evening when Hickok was
playing poker with several men, including
McCall,
Jack lost heavily. Wild Bill
generously gave him back enough money to buy something to eat, but advised
him not to play again until he could cover his losses. This
obviously humiliated McCall
who would take his revenge the next day.

The next
afternoon when Wild Bill
entered Nuttall & Mann's
Saloon he
found Charlie Rich sitting in his preferred seat. After some hesitation,
Wild Bill
joined the game, reluctantly seating himself with his back to the door and
the bar---a fatal mistake. Jack McCall,
drinking heavily at the bar, saw Hickok
enter the saloon,
taking a seat at his regular table in the corner near the door.

McCall
slowly walked around to the corner of the
saloon where
Hickok
was playing his game. From under his coat, McCall
pulled a double-action .45 pistol, shouted
"Take that!” and shot
Wild Bill
Hickok in the back of the head, killing him instantly.
Hickok
had been holding a pair of eights, and a pair of Aces, which has ever
since been known as the "dead man's hand."

More than a decade after Nuttall & Mann's
#10 Saloon burned down in 1879, the new I.H. Chase Building was built
in 1898, which housed a clothing store until 1903. When Chase
moved out, Frank X. Smith opened a beer hall, which proudly advertised
itself as a "metropolitan resort." Later it housed the Eagle Inn, the
sign of which still hangs on the upper portion of the building.
Downstairs is an interpretive site that tells visitors all about the
curse of the dead man's hand, and the man who made it famous.

This and other buildings on the block later served as part of
Deadwood's
infamous Green Door District. On the upper levels were the original
location of several of Deadwood's
brothels, including Pam's Purple Door, one of the last to close in
Deadwood
in 1980. Today, the second story windows are decorated with
scantily dressed mannequins, who beckon to the street below, much as
the real painted ladies of Deadwood's
past once did.